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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice's Secret Weapon: Number Portability — Google Voice, formerly GrandCentral, is a seriously heavyweight product. When it relaunched in March, just a couple of months ago, we gave Google Voice a glowing review. — Once you've jumped in head first to the product it will straighten out your phone life forever.
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Adobe makes Acrobat.com a business with paid accounts — Adobe is taking Acrobat.com out of beta on Monday, and turning it into a business with paid user accounts. The service, which has more than 5 million registered users will retain its free version, however there are now usage limitations …
James Doran / New York Post:
FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE — SOURCES: SERGEY ORDERS BING STUDY — You'd think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google. — But co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
About That New CrunchPad Video — It seems like I've heard that title somewhere before. Oh yeah, almost exactly. So this time a guest at our party last week decided to corner Chandra Rathakrishnan, the CEO of our CrunchPad partner Fusion Garage, and talk him into doing this ridiculous “unboxing” of the CrunchPad.
Arn / MacRumors:
13" and 15" MacBook Pros Have a Slower SATA Interface — As first described in our forums, Apple seems to have quietly downgraded the SATA Interface from 3.0Gbit to 1.5Gbit speeds in some of the new MacBook Pros introduced last week. Readers are reporting that both the new 13" and 15" …
BBC:
Internet brings events in Iran to life — Police on motorbikes charge protesters (Courtesy Corriere della Sera TV) - events like these are being filmed on mobile phones and uploaded online — All over the world people are monitoring unfolding events in Iran via the internet …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:‘#CNNFail’: Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence
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JBC / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia E72 unveiled - pics and video — SINGAPORE, Malaysia - The all new Nokia E72 boasts a host of new features including optical scrolling and a five-megapixel camera. Building on the success of the E71, the E72 takes the very best of Nokia's most successful QWERTY device and makes it even better.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption — Remember when the corporate Web site consisted of mostly static Web pages: a home page, a handful of pages about the company's products or services and a place to learn more about the management team, contact sales or even find hours and directions?
Percy Cabello / Mozilla Links:
Firefox.next peek: profiling yourself — One of the features planned for the next version of Firefox (tentatively named Firefox 3.6, but most accurately referred as Firefox.next) is about:me, a specially crafted web page that will let you see your browsing habits profile including most visited sites …
Jay Hathaway / Download Squad:
Greasemonkey script decodes an impressive list of TinyURLs — It's trendy to use the latest and greatest URL shortening services in IMs and Twitter postings, but clicking on a TinyURL is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get. To avoid any nasty surprises …
Christopher Mack / Inside Social Games:
2009 Q1 Virtual Goods Investments Top $69 Million — In Q1 of 2009, $69 million in funding was invested amongst 10 virtual goods companies during Q1, according to Virtual Goods News. — Quarter-over-quarter, the total amount invested in the space has held steady according to the report.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Calendar Gadgets Appearing — Andrew Pariser emails in a surprise finding in Google Calendar (if by any chance you're able to reproduce this - I'm not - please comment): … [Thanks Andrew and Tony!] — Update: As noted in the comments, you can try disable all CSS on the page …
